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Call for more meningitis vaccines after teen dies
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- Curtis Lancaster South of England Family photo Lewis Waters died earlier this week after contracting meningitis.
- Lewis Waters, a sixth-form pupil at The Henley College, died earlier this week.
- "Young lives are really precious and we should do everything we can to protect them," said Dr Tom Nutt, chief executive of Meningitis Now.
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Curtis Lancaster South of England Family photo Lewis Waters died earlier this week after contracting meningitis. A charity has called for a wider rollout of meningitis vaccines after a teenage boy in Oxfordshire died after contracting the disease.
Lewis Waters, a sixth-form pupil at The Henley College, died earlier this week. Two pupils, one from Reading Blue Coat School and another from Highdown Secondary School and Sixth Form Centre in Reading, are also being treated for meningitis.
"Young lives are really precious and we should do everything we can to protect them," said Dr Tom Nutt, chief executive of Meningitis Now.
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